By Amy McConnell Schaarsmith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In the United States, drug therapy has tamed the most vicious effects of AIDS for many people, letting them live relatively long and healthy lives. Millions of other African children -- lacking the two doses of antiretroviral drugs that could...
AVAC Report 2008: The Search Must Continue, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition: The report provides a review of recent developments in efforts to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. It also examines issues that have been raised following the recent failure of a Merck vaccine candidate, as well as the...
It kills 200,000 people every month and has claimed more lives than World War I – we bring you a timeline of the battle to date. A quarter of a century since the virus that causes AIDS was identified, a vaccine against the deadly disease remains frustratingly out of reach despite a well-funded...
A quarter of a century since the virus that causes AIDS was identified, a vaccine against the deadly disease remains frustratingly out of reach despite a well-funded global effort to find a cure, reports agency. Nearly a billion dollars is spent globally on HIV/AIDS research annually,
by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) May 18, 2008 A quarter of a century since the virus that causes AIDS was identified, a vaccine against the deadly disease remains frustratingly out of reach despite a well-funded global effort to find a cure. "Nearly a billion dollars is spent globally on...
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, reminds us that May 18, 2008 is HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. Twenty-five years ago this month, researchers reported the isolation of the virus that causes AIDS. Since then, over 60 million people have been...